Hi Butch,
Thanks for your suggestions. On our end, the Wikimedia Foundation Product
department is currently undertaking stakeholder discussions in all the
areas you mentioned to understand the problem from all different
perspectives. As we go through this process we are also looking at
potential technical solutions that would reduce some of the pain points
that have been brought up both here and on the talk page. There are some
existing recommendations on this mailing list and the meta page that are
good starting points for these discussions.
We will be summarizing our findings and sharing them on this list and the
talk page once we have completed this process. If anyone has direct
feedback, my inbox is always open.
Thanks!
On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 9:59 PM <bustrias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Let me suggest three things:
1. For Outreach events, campaigns, GLAM events that conduct new user
training and editathons, the Foundation Programs Team (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team)
should proactively coordinate with event organizers and/or foundation grant
applicants and offer assistance to link them with administrators to grant
IP exemptions or account creation / event organizer rights.
2. For WMF Movement Communications Team and Foundation Product Development
Team to conduct stakeholder discussions (end users, event organizers,
active editors) including this mailing list, talk pages, virtual / video
conferences and come up with a thorough document summarizing the feedbacks.
We should not end decisions on Talk pages and mailing list alone.
3. For the technology team & tech community to come up with an update on
the 18 year old IP block policy that is target bad faith editors and
balancing it with middle to low income communities (Africa, South and
Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South America) with shared internet
infrastructure such as mobile data/ school internet connections.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
Butch
Southeast Asia
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